ICYMI: Knowing vs Understanding
(This originally appeared on THWACK.com) In IT, we search the Web constantly. Everything we need is literally at our fingertips,
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ICYMI: Un-Acceptable
(This originally appeared on TechTarget.com) Larry Wall (creator of the Perl programming language) famously said, “Most of you are familiar
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ICYMI: What “Old” Network Engineers Need to Remember
(This article originally appeared on THWACK.com) Not long ago, I read “Five Things Old Programmers Should Remember” by Gary Wisniewski.
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ICYMI: The Five Stages of (Monitoring) Grief
(This article originally appeared on NetworkComputing.com) If you’ve worked in IT for more than 10 minutes, you know that stuff
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Change is Good… For Other People
Things really do stay the same more than they change. And I’ll argue that they do so because we want them
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It’s Not About What Happened
“I call bullshit,” he said with authority. “it it couldn’t have happened like that. Let’s move on to something real.”
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“Nice to Have” is Relative
What could you absolutely positively not live without? … Draw a line. Come up with reasons. Know where you stand. Cute. Except
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Are We There Yet? Are We There Yet? Are We…
How often you request information from a target device (commonly known as the polling cycle) is one of the fine
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A Cornucopia
Before you know it, you have 20, or 50, or 150 monitoring tools in your company. How does that happen? Like
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